<div>Quoting Joe Royall (<a href="mailto:joe@2resonate.net" target="_blank">joe@2resonate.net</a>):<br>
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> Access to your data on a vps is trivial.<br>
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</div>You appear to have ignored what I said.</blockquote></div><div><br>No I didn't. They always have root access to the "host" Your "guest" os could have a different password. The "host" will share the partition with the "guest". On a vps you own the guest the provider owns the host. If it is xen you have a config file in your /etc/xen like<br>

<span><pre><code>disk = ['phy:volume00/guest1,sda1,w']<br><br></code></pre></span></div><div>You can snapshot it from the "host"<br><br>lvcreate -s -n copy_of_guest1 -L 1G /dev/volume00/guest1<br>
<br>it works the same way on openVZ and KVM<br><br>Also, this is only one way. They could also boot your OS to run level 1 and get access to it. If they are running openVZ they can see all of your processes from the "host" and can see all of your memory too.<br>